Posted on 06/13/2013 7:07:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Hollywood and Broadway have run out of ideas.”
It is said that there are only 36 basic dramatic plots. If someone comes up with the 37th then it’s not original.
I will have to see Monte Cristo - missed that version and it looks great.
Artists have been replaced by engineers, no, not even engineers because engineers design things, these are CGI code monkeys. I'm so sick of seeing the same recycled CGI in film after film and the sameness of the characters. The lead in "EPIC" looks like re-used CGI from "Rise of the Guardians" (Jack Frost). It's tiresome.
There are a few good family movies being made. Courageous and Fireproof are a couple of examples. If the movie industry would make good positive family movies, people would go see them and also buy the DVD. I loved the movie “Winn-Dixie”. The grandkids like it too. My 9 yr old granddaughter’s favorite movie is “The God’s Must Be Crazy”. It’s so un-PC that I love it too. Very funny.
Amen Brother. Amen
The God’s Must Be Crazy was a great Indy film
The film simply has everything.
A nice modern adaption of the classic.
If Hollywood goes bust the democrat party will have the taxpayers bail them out.
The last good movie I saw was the “Outlaw Josey Wales”.
The big multiplex’s will have the hardest time of it. The survivors will be a) the big IMAX 3D big spectaculars not co-located with megaplexes and b)the very small operators using cheaper movies to supplement a bar and restaurant.
And how. Movies are mostly made for teenage boys, with car chases, explosions and people taking their clothes off. The writers are immature and dialogue-challenged.
I stopped going when drawing-room comedies disappeared.
I find a lot of indie films either sterile or left-wing. Always about dysfunctional characters (of course, the only sympathetic one being gay). Foreign films tend to be amoral, especially European made.
While I go once in a while to films, I have noticed a decline in Hollywood starting in the 80s. Definitely the spirit is gone. Doesn't matter whether the films are watched in a theater or DVD. Most leave me cold.
laughing my arse off! :-D
Prior to Flight 93, I can’t even guess what movie I saw last.
I also went to see The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo over Christmas vacation six months ago. It was ok for what it was, and I was trying to be a cooperative husband and s-i-l.
The liberal commie experience un educating our children while we try everyday to counter it’s effects
I’ll argue the opposite: there is no need for human actors anymore. The entire story will be CGI, and you’ll not miss the actors. They, of course, will go on strike, demanding that taxpayers subsidize their obsolescence, and make grand moral arguments about art.
I’ll say it again: acting is dead. Long live the illustrators and writers. (I do agree that Hollywood is out of ideas, which is a different issue. When you turn against virtue, you can’t have a hero; without heros, there are no stories.)
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